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I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] it almost made me want to be a film-maker!
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
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A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.
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He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed
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Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.
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You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
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and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.
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Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt.
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There is never only one, of anyone
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How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.
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If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.
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I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
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Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.
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All fat women look the same they all look 42.
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If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
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We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.
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A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.
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More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?
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Where do the words go when we have said them?
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